Rodgers, Sondheim, Hammett in 42nd St. Moon season

A neglected Richard Rodgers-Stephen Sondheim musical, a revived flop and Broadway star Emily Skinner highlight the 2014-15 season announced by the “rare and uncommon musicals” company 42nd Street Moon. Old faves “The Boy Friend” and “Where’s Charley” light up the bill, but revivals of Rodgers and Sondheim’s fabled “Do I hear a Waltz?” and the nine-show wonder “Nick & Nora” — both with books by the late great Arthur Laurents (“West Side Story,” “Gypsy”) — may be the most eagerly anticipated offerings for aficionados.

Skinner (“Side Show,” “Billy Elliot”) stars as the lonely American tourist in Venice in “Waltz” — Sondheim and Rodgers only collaboration, adapted by Laurents from his play “The Time of the Cuckoo” — to open the season in October. Artistic Director Greg MacKellan stages the original 1965 version, rather than Sondheim and Laurents’ 1999 revised one. Sandy Wilson‘s ever-popular “Boy Friend” and Cole Porter‘s tuneful “Something for the Boys” (book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields) follow it into 42nd’s Eureka Theatre home in the fall.

The 22nd season closes next spring with Frank Loesser and George Abbott‘s “Charley,” the musical adaptation of the infallible “Charley’s Aunt.” But before that, MacKellan undertakes the first-ever revival of Laurents’ 1991 attempt to musical-ize Dashiell Hammett‘s iconic “The Thin Man” sleuths in “Nick & Nora,” with music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr. No word yet on who plays Asta. Or the titular married sleuths for that matter.

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